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The Christian life is meant to be lived out in the context of the spiritual community of the church. Yet, as we interact with one another, invariably, we will disagree. Sometimes those disagreements are over convictions and matters of the conscience. Today, as we study 1st Corinthians 8, we'll see that there are several key principles that go into loving that person. Join us for today's podcast on 1st Corinthians 8! Check out our Bible Study Guide on the Key Chapters of Genesis! Available on Amazon! To see our dedicated podcast website with access to all our episodes and other resources, visit us at: www.keychapters.org. Find us on all major platforms, or use these direct links: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6OqbnDRrfuyHRmkpUSyoHv Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/366-key-chapters-in-the-bible/id1493571819 YouTube: Key Chapters of the Bible on YouTube. In 2025, we were awarded #10 on the list of the "Best 100 Bible Podcasts" list from www.millionpodcasts.com. We are grateful to be included in the "Top 100 Bible Podcasts to Follow" from Feedspot.com. Also for regularly being awarded "Podcast of the Day" from PlayerFM. Special thanks to Joseph McDade for providing our theme music.
Timothy David Snyder is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He is on leave from his position as the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University with plans (as of 1 July 2025 to transfer to the University of Toronto for an indefinite time.He is a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Snyder serves on the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds the inaugural Chair in Modern European History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies, at the Munk School at the University of Toronto; he will teach at the school during the 2025–26 academic year.Snyder has written many books, including Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017), The Road to Unfreedom (2018), and Our Malady (2020). Several of these have been described as best-sellers.
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Michelle welcomes back Michael Drescher, founder of Vibrant Body Company, to talk about blending conscience with commerce. Drescher shares what inspired his mission to revolutionize women's apparel with safe, non-toxic, clothing designs.The conversation dives into how purpose-driven brands can make profit while doing good, the importance of values-based entrepreneurship, and the spiritual journey of listening to life's “nudges.” Michael also discusses his company's partnership with Breast Cancer Prevention Partners, their 1% sales pledge, and creative awareness campaigns like “bra pong.”The episode explores why conscious consumerism is the future of business.Enjoying Social Soup? Share it with friends!Watch Michael's Ted Talk: youtube.com/watch?v=HISv4FgMzYc Check out Vibrant Body Company: VibrantBodyCompany.comCheck out Breast Cancer Prevention Partners: bcpp.org Explore resources on sustainable fashion: Ecocult.comRemake.worldConnect with Michael on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/michaelddrescher Connect with Michelle on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/michelledattilio Learn more about sōsh: visit our website and reach out! getsosh.com
This week on G3 Weekly, we analyze the biggest headlines through the light of Scripture:1. The Socialist Shift in NYC (0:39) We break down the victory of Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim and Democratic Socialist mayor of New York City, and explain why this ideology fundamentally clashes with a biblical worldview that affirms private property and individual responsibility.2. Government Shutdown Deconstructed (6:49)The longest-ever federal shutdown reveals a dangerously over-involved government. We discuss why the constitutional gridlock is actually a feature designed as a "protection against tyranny."3. The War on Conscience (12:09)We examine the new University of California mandate that defines using an "incorrect pronoun" or "dead name" as harassment, arguing this is compelled speech that forces Christian students to violate their conscience.4. Major Religious Freedom Victory (15:38) We celebrate the Texas Supreme Court ruling that protects judges who refuse to perform same-sex marriages based on their biblical convictions, creating a vital shield for the Christian conscience in the public square.Ultimately: As Christians, our hope is in God's sovereignty, not in human politics.
Mary Lovell is a queer grassroots organizer, visual artist, and activist who has been fighting oil and gas infrastructure and for social justice for their adult life - living up in the Kitsap Penninsula they are working on their first book and love working with people to build power in their communitiesWelcome to the Arise podcast. This is episode 12, conversations on Reality. And today we're touching on organizing and what does it mean to organize? How do we organize? And we talk to a seasoned organizer, Mary Lavelle. And so Mary is a queer, grassroots organizer, visual artist and activist who has been fighting oil and gas infrastructure and fighting for social justice in their adult life. Living in the Kitsap Peninsula. They're working on their first book and love working with people to build power in their communities. Join us. I hope you stay curious and we continue the dialogue.Danielle (00:02):Okay, Mary, it's so great to have you today. Just want to hear a little bit about who you are, where you come from, how did you land? I know I met you in Kitsap County. Are you originally from here? Yeah. Just take itMary (00:15):Away. Yeah. So my name is Mary Lovel. I use she or they pronouns and I live in Washington State in Kitsap County. And then I have been organizing, I met Danielle through organizing, but I've spent most of my life organizing against oil and gas pipelines. I grew up in Washington state and then I moved up to Canada where there was a major oil pipeline crossing through where I was living. And so that got me engaged in social justice movements. That's the Transmountain pipeline, which it was eventually built, but we delayed it by a decade through a ton of different organizing, combination of lawsuits and direct action and all sorts of different tactics. And so I got to try and learn a lot of different things through that. And then now I'm living in Washington state and do a lot of different social justice bits and bobs of organizing, but mostly I'm focused on stopping. There's a major gas build out in Texas and Louisiana, and so I've been working with communities down there on pressuring financiers behind those oil and gas pipelines and major gas export. But all that to say, it's also like everyone is getting attacked on all sides. So I see it as a very intersectional fight of so many communities are being impacted by ice and the rise of the police state becoming even more prolific and surveillance becoming more prolific and all the things. So I see it as one little niche in a much larger fight. Yeah,Yeah, totally. I think when I moved up to Canada, I was just finished high school, was moving up for college, had been going to some of the anti-war marches that were happening at the time, but was very much along for the ride, was like, oh, I'll go to big stuff. But it was more like if there was a student walkout or someone else was organizing people. And then when I moved up to Canada, I just saw the history of the nation state there in a totally different way. I started learning about colonialism and understanding that the land that I had moved to was unseated Tu Squamish and Musqueam land, and started learning also about how resource extraction and indigenous rights went hand in hand. I think in general, in the Pacific Northwest and Coast Salish territories, the presence of indigenous communities is really a lot more visible than other parts of North America because of the timelines of colonization.(03:29):But basically when I moved and had a fresh set of eyes, I was seeing the major marginalization of indigenous communities in Canada and the way that racism was showing up against indigenous communities there and just the racial demographics are really different in Canada. And so then I was just seeing the impacts of that in just a new way, and it was just frankly really startling. It's the sheer number of people that are forced to be houseless and the disproportionate impacts on especially indigenous communities in Canada, where in the US it's just different demographics of folks that are facing houselessness. And it made me realize that the racial context is so different place to place. But anyways, so all that to say is that I started learning about the combination there was the rise of the idle, no more movement was happening. And so people were doing a lot of really large marches and public demonstrations and hunger strikes and all these different things around it, indigenous rights in Canada and in bc there was a major pipeline that people were fighting too.(04:48):And that was the first time that I understood that my general concerns about climate and air and water were one in the same with racial justice. And I think that that really motivated me, but I also think I started learning about it from an academic standpoint and then I was like, this is incredibly dumb. It's like all these people are just writing about this. Why is not anyone doing anything about it? I was going to Simon Fraser University and there was all these people writing whole entire books, and I was like, that's amazing that there's this writing and study and knowledge, but also people are prioritizing this academic lens when it's so disconnected from people's lived realities. I was just like, what the fuck is going on? So then I got involved in organizing and there was already a really robust organizing community that I plugged into there, but I just helped with a lot of different art stuff or a lot of different mass mobilizations and trainings and stuff like that. But yeah, then I just stuck with it. I kept learning so many cool things and meeting so many interesting people that, yeah, it's just inspiring.Jenny (06:14):No, that's okay. I obviously feel free to get into as much or as little of your own personal story as you want to, but I was thinking we talk a lot about reality on here, and I'm hearing that there was introduction to your reality based on your education and your experience. And for me, I grew up in a very evangelical world where the rapture was going to happen anytime and I wasn't supposed to be concerned with ecological things because this world was going to end and a new one was going to come. And I'm just curious, and you can speak again as broadly or specifically if the things you were learning were a reality shift for you or if it just felt like it was more in alignment with how you'd experienced being in a body on a planet already.Mary (07:08):Yeah, yeah, that's an interesting question. I think. So I grew up between Renton and Issaquah, which is not, it was rural when I was growing up. Now it's become suburban sprawl, but I spent almost all of my summers just playing outside and very hermit ish in a very kind of farm valley vibe. But then I would go into the city for cool punk art shows or whatever. When you're a teenager and you're like, this is the hippest thing ever. I would be like, wow, Seattle. And so when I moved up to Vancouver, it was a very big culture shock for me because of it just being an urban environment too, even though I think I was seeing a lot of the racial impacts and all of the, but also a lot of just that class division that's visible in a different way in an urban environment because you just have more folks living on the streets rather than living in precarious places, more dispersed the way that you see in rural environments.(08:21):And so I think that that was a real physical shift for me where it was walking around and seeing the realities people were living in and the environment that I was living in. It's like many, many different people were living in trailers or buses or a lot of different, it wasn't like a wealthy suburban environment, it was a more just sprawling farm environment. But I do think that that moving in my body from being so much of my time outside and so much of my time in really all of the stimulation coming from the natural world to then going to an urban environment and seeing that the crowding of people and pushing people into these weird living situations I felt like was a big wake up call for me. But yeah, I mean my parents are sort of a mixed bag. I feel like my mom is very lefty, she is very spiritual, and so I was exposed to a lot of different face growing up.(09:33):She is been deep in studying Buddhism for most of her life, but then also was raised Catholic. So it was one of those things where my parents were like, you have to go to Catholic school because that's how you get morals, even though both of them rejected Catholicism in different ways and had a lot of different forms of abuse through those systems, but then they're like, you have to do this because we had to do it anyways. So all that to say is that I feel like I got exposed to a lot of different religious forms of thought and spirituality, but I didn't really take that too far into organizing world. But I wasn't really forced into a box the same way. It wasn't like I was fighting against the idea of rapture or something like that. I was more, I think my mom especially is very open-minded about religion.(10:30):And then my dad, I had a really hard time with me getting involved in activism because he just sees it as really high risk talk to me for after I did a blockade for a couple months or different things like that. Over the course of our relationship, he's now understands why I'm doing what I'm doing. He's learned a lot about climate and I think the way that this social movements can create change, he's been able to see that because of learning through the news and being more curious about it over time. But definitely that was more of the dynamic is a lot of you shouldn't do that because you should keep yourself safe and that won't create change. It's a lot of the, anyways,I imagine too getting involved, even how Jenny named, oh, I came from this space, and Mary, you came from this space. I came from a different space as well, just thinking. So you meet all these different kinds of people with all these different kinds of ideas about how things might work. And obviously there's just three of us here, and if we were to try to organize something, we would have three distinct perspectives with three distinct family origins and three distinct ways of coming at it. But when you talk about a grander scale, can you give any examples or what you've seen works and doesn't work in your own experience, and how do you personally navigate different personalities, maybe even different motivations for getting something done? Yeah,Mary (12:30):Yeah. I think that's one of the things that's constantly intention, I feel like in all social movements is some people believe, oh, you should run for mayor in order to create the city environment that you want. Or some people are like, oh, if only we did lawsuits. Why don't we just sue the bastards? We can win that way. And then the other people are like, why spend the money and the time running for these institutions that are set up to create harm? And we should just blockade them and shift them through enough pressure, which is sort of where I fall in the political scheme I guess. But to me, it's really valuable to have a mix where I'm like, okay, when you have both inside and outside negotiation and pressure, I feel like that's what can create the most change because basically whoever your target is then understands your demands.(13:35):And so if you aren't actually clearly making your demands seen and heard and understood, then all the outside pressure in the world, they'll just dismiss you as being weird wing nuts. So I think that's where I fall is that you have to have both and that those will always be in disagreement because anyone doing inside negotiation with any kind of company or government is always going to be awkwardly in the middle between your outside pressure and what the target demand is. And so they'll always be trying to be wishy-washy and water down your demands or water down the, yeah. So anyways, all that to say is so I feel like there's a real range there, and I find myself in the most disagreements with the folks that are doing inside negotiations unless they're actually accountable to the communities. I think that my main thing that I've seen over the years as people that are doing negotiations with either corporations or with the government often wind up not including the most directly impacted voices and shooing them out of the room or not actually being willing to cede power, agreeing to terms that are just not actually what the folks on the ground want and celebrating really small victories.(15:06):So yeah, I don't know. That's where a lot of the tension is, I think. But I really just believe in the power of direct action and arts and shifting culture. I feel like the most effective things that I've seen is honestly spaghetti on the wall strategy where you just try everything. You don't actually know what's going to move these billionaires.(15:32):They have huge budgets and huge strategies, but it's also if you can create, bring enough people with enough diverse skill sets into the room and then empower them to use their skillsets and cause chaos for whoever the target is, where it's like they are stressed out by your existence, then they wind up seeding to your demands because they're just like, we need this problem to go away. So I'm like, how do we become a problem that's really hard to ignore? It's basically my main strategy, which sounds silly. A lot of people hate it when I answer this way too. So at work or in other places, people think that I should have a sharper strategy and I'm like, okay, but actually does anyone know the answer to this question? No, let's just keep rolling anyways. But I do really going after the financiers or SubT targets too.(16:34):That's one of the things that just because sometimes it's like, okay, if you're going to go after Geo Corp or Geo Group, I mean, or one of the other major freaking giant weapons manufacturers or whatever, it just fully goes against their business, and so they aren't going to blink even at a lot of the campaigns, they will get startled by it versus the people that are the next layer below them that are pillars of support in the community, they'll waffle like, oh, I don't want to actually be associated with all those war crimes or things like that. So I like sub targets, but those can also be weird distractions too, depending on what it is. So yeah, really long. IDanielle (17:24):Dunno how you felt, Jenny, but I feel all those tensions around organizing that you just said, I felt myself go like this as you went through it because you didn't. Exactly. I mean nothing. I agree it takes a broad strategy. I think I agree with you on that, but sitting in the room with people with broad perspectives and that disagree is so freaking uncomfortable. It's so much just to soothe myself in that environment and then how to know to balance that conversation when those people don't even really like each other maybe.Mary (17:57):Oh yeah. And you're just trying to avoid having people get in an actual fight. Some of the organizing against the banger base, for instance, I find really inspiring because of them having ex submarine captains and I'm like, okay, I'm afraid of talking to folks that have this intense military perspective, but then when they walk away from their jobs and actually want to help a movement, then you're like, okay, we have to organize across difference. But it's also to what end, it's like are you going to pull the folks that are coming from really diverse perspectives further left through your organizing or are you just trying to accomplish a goal with them to shift one major entity or I dunno. But yeah, it's very stressful. I feel like trying to avoid getting people in a fight is also a role myself or trying to avoid getting invites myself.Jenny (19:09):That was part of what I was wondering is if you've over time found that there are certain practices or I hate this word protocols or ways of engaging folks, that feels like intentional chaos and how do you kind of steward that chaos rather than it just erupting in a million different places or maybe that is part of the process even. But just curious how you've found that kind ofMary (19:39):Yeah, I love doing calendaring with people so that people can see one another's work and see the value of both inside and outside pressure and actually map it out together so that they aren't feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of one sort of train of thought leading. Do you know what I mean? Where it's like if people see all of this DC based blobbing happening, that's very much less so during the current administration, but for example, then they might be frustrated and feel like, where is our pressure campaign or where is our movement building work versus if you actually just map out those moments together and then see how they can be in concert. I feel like that's my real, and it's a bit harder to do with lawsuit stuff because it's just so much not up to social movements about when that happens because the courts are just long ass processes that are just five years later they announced something and you're like, what?(20:53):But for the things that you can pace internally, I feel like that is a big part of it. And I find that when people are working together in coalition, there's a lot of communities that I work with that don't get along, but they navigate even actively disliking each other in order to share space, in order to build a stronger coalition. And so that's to me is really inspiring. And sometimes that will blow up and become a frustrating source of drama where it's like you have two frontline leaders that are coming from a very different social movement analysis if one is coming from economic justice and is coming from the working class white former oil worker line of thinking. And then you have a community organizer that's been grown up in the civil rights movement and is coming from a black feminism and is a black organizer with a big family. Some of those tensions will brew up where it's like, well, I've organized 200 oil workers and then you've organized a whole big family, and at the end of the day, a lot of the former oil workers are Trumpers and then a lot of the black fam is we have generations of beef with y'all.(22:25):We have real lived history of you actually sorting our social progress. So then you wind up in this coalition dynamic where you're like, oh fuck. But it's also if they both give each other space to organize and see when you're organizing a march or something like that, even having contingent of people coming or things like that, that can be really powerful. And I feel like that's the challenge and the beauty of the moment that we're in where you're like you have extreme social chaos in so many different levels and even people on the right are feeling it.Danielle (23:12):Yeah, I agree. I kind of wonder what you would say to this current moment and the coalition, well, the people affected is broadening, and so I think the opportunity for the Coalition for Change is broadening and how do we do that? How do we work? Exactly. I think you pinned it. You have the oil person versus this other kind of family, but I feel that, and I see that especially around snap benefits or food, it's really hard when you're at the government level, it's easy to say, well, those people don't deserve that dah, dah, dah, right? But then you're in your own community and you ask anybody, Hey, let's get some food for a kid. They're like, yeah, almost no one wants to say no to that. So I don't know, what are you kind of hearing? What are you feeling as I say that?Mary (24:11):Yeah, I definitely feel like we're in a moment of great social upheaval where I feel like the class analysis that people have is really growing when have people actually outright called the government fascist and an oligarchy for years that was just a very niche group of lefties saying that. And then now we have a broad swath of people actually explicitly calling out the classism and the fascism that we're seeing rising. And you're seeing a lot of people that are really just wanting to support their communities because they're feeling the impacts of cost of living and feeling the impacts of all these social programs being cut. And also I think having a lot more visibility into the violence of the police state too. And I think, but yeah, it's hard to know exactly what to do with all that momentum. It feels like there's a huge amount of momentum that's possible right now.(25:24):And there's also not a lot of really solid places for people to pour their energy into of multiracial coalitions with a specific demand set that can shift something, whether it be at the state level or city level or federal level. It feels like there's a lot of dispersed energy and you have these mass mobilizations, but then that I feel excited about the prospect of actually bringing people together across difference. I feel like it really is. A lot of people are really demystified so many people going out to protests. My stepmom started going out to a lot of the no kings protests when she hasn't been to any protest over the whole course of her life. And so it's like people being newly activated and feeling a sense of community in the resistance to the state, and that's just really inspiring. You can't take that moment back away from people when they've actually gone out to a protest.(26:36):Then when they see protests, they know what it feels like to be there. But yeah, I feel like I'm not really sure honestly what to do with all of the energy. And I think I also have been, and I know a lot of other organizers are in this space of grieving and reflecting and trying to get by and they aren't necessarily stepping up into a, I have a strategy, please follow me role that could be really helpful for mentorship for people. And instead it feels like there's a bit of a vacuum, but that's also me calling from my living room in Kitsap County. I don't have a sense of what's going on in urban environments really or other places. There are some really cool things going on in Seattle for people that are organizing around the city's funding of Tesla or building coalitions that are both around defunding the police and also implementing climate demands or things like that. And then I also feel like I'm like, people are celebrating that Dick Cheney died. Fuck yes. I'm like, people are a lot more just out there with being honest about how they feel about war criminals and then you have that major win in New York and yeah, there's some little beacons of hope. Yeah. What do you all think?Jenny (28:16):I just find myself really appreciating the word coalition. I think a lot of times I use the word collective, and I think it was our dear friend Rebecca a couple of weeks ago was like, what do you mean by collective? What are you saying by that? And I was struggling to figure that out, and I think coalition feels a lot more honest. It feels like it has space for the diversity and the tensions and the conflicts within trying to perhaps pursue a similar goal. And so I just find myself really appreciating that language. And I was thinking about several years ago I did an embodied social justice certificate and one of the teachers was talking about white supremacy and is a professor in a university. I was like, I'm aware of representing white supremacy in a university and speaking against it, and I'm a really big believer in termites, and I just loved that idea of I myself, I think it's perhaps because I think I am neurodivergent and I don't do well in any type of system, and so I consider myself as one of those that will be on the outside doing things and I've grown my appreciation for those that have the brains or stamina or whatever is required to be one of those people that works on it from the inside.(29:53):So those are some of my thoughts. What about you, Danielle?Danielle (30:03):I think a lot about how we move where it feels like this, Mary, you're talking about people are just quiet and I know I spent weeks just basically being with my family at home and the food thing came up and I've been motivated for that again, and I also just find myself wanting to be at home like cocoon. I've been out to some of the marches and stuff, said hi to people or did different things when I have energy, but they're like short bursts and I don't feel like I have a very clear direction myself on what is the long-term action, except I was telling friends recently art and food, if I can help people make art and we can eat together, that feels good to me right now. And those are the only two things that have really resonated enough for me to have creative energy, and maybe that's something to the exhaustion you're speaking about and I don't know, I mean Mary A. Little bit, and I know Jenny knows, I spent a group of us spent years trying to advocate for English language learners here at North and in a nanosecond, Trump comes along and just Fs it all, Fs up the law, violates the law, violates funding all of this stuff in a nanosecond, and you're like, well, what do you do about that?(31:41):It doesn't mean you stop organizing at the local level, but there is something of a punch to the gut about it.Mary (31:48):Oh yeah, no, people are just getting punched in the gut all over the place and then you're expected to just keep on rolling and moving and you're like, alright, well I need time to process. But then it feels like you can just be stuck in this pattern of just processing because they just keep throwing more and more shit at you and you're like, ah, let us hide and heal for a little bit, and then you're like, wait, that's not what I'm supposed to be doing right now. Yeah. Yeah. It's intense. And yeah, I feel that the sense of need for art and food is a great call. Those things are restorative too, where you're like, okay, how can I actually create a space that feels healthy and generative when so much of that's getting taken away? I also speaking to your somatic stuff, Jenny, I recently started doing yoga and stretching stuff again after just years of not because I was like, oh, I have all this shit all locked up in my body and I'm not even able to process when I'm all locked up. Wild. Yeah.Danielle (33:04):Yeah. I fell in a hole almost two weeks ago, a literal concrete hole, and I think the hole was meant for my husband Luis. He actually has the worst luck than me. I don't usually do that shit meant I was walking beside him, I was walking beside of him. He is like, you disappeared. I was like, it's because I stepped in and I was in the moment. My body was like, oh, just roll. And then I went to roll and I was like, well, I should put my hand out. I think it's concrete. So I sprained my right ankle, I sprained my right hand, I smashed my knees on the concrete. They're finally feeling better, but that's how I feel when you talk about all of this. I felt like the literal both sides of my body and I told a friend at the gym is like, I don't think I can be mortal combat because when my knees hurt, it's really hard for me to do anything. So if I go into any, I'm conscripted or anything happens to me, I need to wear knee pads.Jenny (34:48):Yeah. I literally Googled today what does it mean if you just keep craving cinnamon? And Google was like, you probably need sweets, which means you're probably very stressed. I was like, oh, yeah. It's just interesting to me all the ways that our bodies speak to us, whether it's through that tension or our cravings, it's like how do we hold that tension of the fact that we are animal bodies that have very real needs and the needs of our communities, of our coalitions are exceeding what it feels like we have individual capacity for, which I think is part of the point. It's like let's make everything so unbelievably shitty that people have a hard time just even keeping up. And so it feels at times difficult to tend to my body, and I'm trying to remember, I have to tend to my body in order to keep the longevity that is necessary for this fight, this reconstruction that's going to take probably longer than my life will be around, and so how do I keep just playing my part in it while I'm here?Mary (36:10):Yeah. That's very wise, Jenny. I feel like the thing that I've been thinking about a lot as winter settles in is that I've been like, right, okay, trees lose their leaves and just go dormant. It's okay for me to just go dormant and that doesn't mean that I'm dead. I think that's been something that I've been thinking about too, where it's like, yeah, it's frustrating to see the urgency of this time and know that you're supposed to be rising to the occasion and then also be in your dormancy or winter, but I do feel like there is something to that, the nurturing of the roots that happens when plants aren't focused on growing upwards. I think that that's also one of the things that I've been thinking a lot about in organizing, especially for some of the folks that are wanting to organize but aren't sure a lot of the blockade tactics that they were interested in pursuing now feel just off the table for the amount of criminalization or problems that they would face for it. So then it's like, okay, but how do we go back and nurture our roots to be stronger in the long run and not just disappear into the ether too?Danielle (37:31):I do feel that, especially being in Washington, I feel like this is the hibernation zone. It's when my body feels cozy at night and I don't want to be out, and it means I want to just be with my family more for me, and I've just given myself permission for that for weeks now because it's really what I wanted to do and I could tell my kids craved it too, and my husband and I just could tell they needed it, and so I was surprised I needed it too. I like to be out and I like to be with people, but I agree, Mary, I think we get caught up in trying to grow out that we forget that we do need to really take care of our bodies. And I know you were saying that too, Jenny. I mean, Jenny Jenny's the one that got me into somatic therapy pretty much, so if I roll out of this telephone booth, you can blame Jenny. That's great.Mary (38:39):That's perfect. Yeah, somatics are real. Oh, the cinnamon thing, because cinnamon is used to regulate your blood sugar. I don't know if you realize that a lot of people that have diabetes or insulin resistant stuff, it's like cinnamon helps see your body with sugar regulation, so that's probably why Google was telling you that too.Jenny (39:04):That is really interesting. I do have to say it was one of those things, I got to Vermont and got maple syrup and I was like, I don't think I've ever actually tasted maple syrup before, so now I feel like I've just been drinking it all day. So good. Wait,Mary (39:29):That's amazing. Also, it's no coincidence that those are the fall flavors, right? Like maple and cinnamon and all the Totally, yeah. Cool.Danielle (39:42):So Mary, what wisdom would you give to folks at whatever stage they're in organizing right now? If you could say, Hey, this is something I didn't know even last week, but I know now. Is there something you'd want to impart or give away?Mary (39:59):I think the main thing is really just to use your own skills. Don't feel like you have to follow along with whatever structure someone is giving you for organizing. It's like if you're an artist, use that. If you're a writer, use that. If you make film, use that, don't pigeonhole yourself into that. You have to be a letter writer because that's the only organized thing around you. I think that's the main thing that I always feel like is really exciting to me is people, if you're a coder, there's definitely activists that need help with websites or if you're an accountant, there are so many organizations that are ready to just get audited and then get erased from this world and they desperately need you. I feel like there's a lot of the things that I feel like when you're getting involved in social movements. The other thing that I want to say right now is that people have power.(40:55):It's like, yes, we're talking about falling in holes and being fucking exhausted, but also even in the midst of this, a community down in Corpus Christi just won a major fight against a desalination plant where they were planning on taking a bunch of water out of their local bay and then removing the salt from it in order to then use the water for the oil and gas industry. And that community won a campaign through city level organizing, which is just major because basically they have been in a multi-year intense drought, and so their water supply is really, really critical for the whole community around them. And so the fact that they won against this desal plant is just going to be really important for decades to come, and that was one under the Trump administration. They were able to win it because it was a city level fight.(42:05):Also, the De Express pipeline got canceled down in Texas and Louisiana, which is a major pipeline expansion that was going to feed basically be a feeder pipeline to a whole pipeline system in Mexico and LNG export there. There's like, and that was just two weeks ago maybe, but it feels like there's hardly any news about it because people are so focused on fighting a lot of these larger fights, but I just feel like it's possible to win still, and people are very much feeling, obviously we aren't going to win a lot of major things under fascism, but it's also still possible to create change at a local level and not the state can't take everything from us. They're trying to, and also it's a fucking gigantic country, so thinking about them trying to manage all of us is just actually impossible for them to do it. They're having to offer, yes, the sheer number of people that are working for ICE is horrific, and also they're offering $50,000 signing bonuses because no one actually wants to work for ice.(43:26):They're desperately recruiting, and it's like they're causing all of this economic imbalance and uncertainty and chaos in order to create a military state. They're taking away the SNAP benefits so that people are hungry enough and desperate enough to need to steal food so that they can criminalize people, so that they can build more jails so that they can hire more police. They're doing all of these things strategically, but also they can't actually stop all of the different social movement organizers or all of the communities that are coming together because it's just too big of a region that they're trying to govern. So I feel like that's important to recognize all of the ways that we can win little bits and bobs, and it doesn't feel like, it's not like this moment feels good, but it also doesn't, people I think, are letting themselves believe what the government is telling them that they can't resist and that they can't win. And so it's just to me important to add a little bit more nuance of that. What the government's doing is strategic and also we can also still win things and that, I don't know, it's like we outnumber them, but yeah, that's my pep talk, pep Ted talk.Mary (45:18):And just the number of Canadians that texted me being like, mom, Donny, they're just like, everyone is seeing that it's, having the first Muslim be in a major political leadership role in New York is just fucking awesome, wild, and I'm also skeptical of all levels of government, but I do feel like that's just an amazing win for the people. Also, Trump trying to get in with an endorsement as if that would help. It's hilarious. Honestly,Mary (46:41):Yeah. I also feel like the snap benefits thing is really going to be, it reminds me of that quote, they tried to bury us, but we were seeds quote where I'm just like, oh, this is going to actually bite you so hard. You're now creating an entire generation of people that's discontent with the government, which I'm like, okay, maybe this is going to have a real negative impact on children that are going hungry. And also it's like to remember that they're spending billions on weapons instead of feeding people. That is so radicalizing for so many people that I just am like, man, I hope this bites them in the long term. I just am like, it's strategic for them for trying to get people into prisons and terrible things like that, but it's also just woefully unstrategic when you think about it long term where you're like, okay, have whole families just hating you.Jenny (47:57):It makes me think of James Baldwin saying not everything that's faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it's faced. And I feel like so many of these things are forcing folks who have had privilege to deny the class wars and the oligarchy and all of these things that have been here forever, but now that it's primarily affecting white bodies, it's actually forcing some of those white bodies to confront how we've gotten here in the first place. And that gives me a sense of hope.Mary (48:48):Oh, great. Thank you so much for having me. It was so nice to talk to y'all. I hope that you have a really good rest of your day, and yeah, really appreciate you hosting these important convos. Well, first I guess I would have to believe that there was or is an actual political dialogue taking place that I could potentially be a part of. And honestly, I'm not sure that I believe that.
WBBM political editor Geoff Buchholz reports on Mayor Brandon Johnson's comments about an ICE detention at a daycare on Chicago's North side.
WBBM political editor Geoff Buchholz reports on Mayor Brandon Johnson's comments about an ICE detention at a daycare on Chicago's North side.
WBBM political editor Geoff Buchholz reports on Mayor Brandon Johnson's comments about an ICE detention at a daycare on Chicago's North side.
J'ai retrouvé Bart après des années sans nous voir, et cette conversation m'a profondément touchée. Nous nous connaissons depuis l'époque où il avait lancé Abrigo, sa startup sur le marché de la rencontre, quand Tinder débarquait tout juste en France. À l'époque, il m'avait déjà invitée dans son podcast pour parler d'amour et de carrière, posant des questions que je ne m'attendais pas à entendre : comment ma relation impactait ma vie professionnelle. Il était précurseur sur ces sujets, bien avant que tout le monde ne s'y intéresse.Ce qui m'a fascinée dans notre échange, c'est de comprendre comment Bart a vécu cette bifurcation rare entre le monde des startups et celui de la création de contenu, deux univers qui se regardent souvent avec méfiance. Après l'échec douloureux d'Abrigo, une séparation compliquée et six mois de fêtes et d'errance, il s'est retrouvé face à une question essentielle : pourquoi certains réussissent et pas d'autres ? Cette interrogation l'a poussé à créer Extraterrestre, son podcast où il interroge des sportifs de haut niveau sur leurs clés de réussite. Une démarche humble et honnête, née de sa propre quête spirituelle. Ce qui ressort de son parcours, c'est l'importance capitale des routines et des rituels dans sa reconstruction. Bart a construit sa santé mentale jour après jour, avec des pratiques simples : tenir un carnet, ritualiser ses gratitudes et ses fiertés, instaurer des protocoles de communication dans son couple. Il parle ouvertement de ces rituels du dimanche soir où lui et sa compagne se font du feedback, se disent ce qu'ils ont apprécié l'un chez l'autre. Une approche qui peut surprendre, mais qui nourrit leur relation au quotidien. Il insiste sur ce point : sa compagne est au cœur de ses réussites, elle est son associée de vie, sa confidente.Bart incarne cette idée que les routines ne tuent pas la spontanéité, elles la libèrent. Il a testé énormément de pratiques, abandonné celles qui ne lui correspondaient pas, gardé celles qui le nourrissent vraiment. Son message est clair : ce n'est pas dans les grands discours qu'on trouve l'équilibre, mais dans ces petites actions répétées qui construisent une vie alignée. Aujourd'hui épanoui et en pleine réussite, il continue d'explorer ce qui fait qu'on progresse, qu'on grandit, qu'on devient la meilleure version de soi-même.Timeline0:00:01 - 00:06:44 : Retrouvailles et contexte : quand deux entrepreneurs se reconnectent 00:06:45 - 00:15:40 : Abrigo : l'aventure d'une startup dans le marché de la rencontre 00:15:41 - 00:28:30 : Les défis de l'entrepreneuriat : pivoter ou persévérer 00:28:31 - 00:42:15 : L'échec comme tremplin : transformer une fermeture en opportunité 00:42:16 - 00:54:20 : Leadership et gestion d'équipe : les leçons du terrain 00:54:21 - 01:04:35 : Équilibre de vie : quand l'entrepreneuriat rencontre le bien-être personnel 01:04:36 - 01:09:51 : Routines de performance : les rituels quotidiens qui font la différenceHébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
Pastor Jeremy Howard joins Sound Words to unpack what the Bible teaches about the conscience—how it works, how it can be corrupted, and how it can be strengthened through truth and grace. Learn how to respond when convictions differ, avoid legalism, and walk faithfully before God with a conscience shaped by Scripture.00:00 Welcome to the Sound Words Podcast01:29 Why the Topic of the Conscience03:27 Biblical View of the Conscience07:21 Weakened or Seared Conscience12:51 Conviction14:02 When Christian Consciences Differ20:30 The Role of the Local Church and the Conscience24:25 The World Shaping our Conscience26:35 Conscience vs Legalism33:11 "What's True for Me"#ChristianEthics #Conscience #ChristianLiving #SoundWordsPodcast #SoundWordsSound Words is a ministry of Indian Hills Community Church, a Bible teaching church in Lincoln, NE. Sound Words is also a partner of Foundations Media, a collective of Christian creators passionate about promoting biblical theology and applying it to everyday life. Learn more at https://foundationsmedia.org. Follow on Instagram Follow on Facebook Follow on YouTube Follow on Twitter Follow on Threads Visit https://ihcc.org
Columbia, Harvard, UCLA, Brown, Stanford, MIT... Depuis son retour à la Maison Blanche, les universités américaines sont la cible de Donald Trump. Interdiction des programmes de diversité, d'équité et d'inclusion, révisions des contenus pédagogiques, censure de certains mots, fin des visas à des étudiants et chercheurs étrangers, menaces sur les avantages fiscaux, suppression ou gel des subventions... Le président américain multiplie les injonctions et mesures contre les campus qu'il accuse d'être des bastions du wokisme, où l'antisémitisme prospèrerait. Dernière tentative de s'immiscer dans la gouvernance des universités : un «pacte pour l'excellence académique» qui implique notamment de ne pas dépasser les 15% d'étudiants étrangers en échange de fonds fédéraux pour 9 universités. Dans les campus, la résistance s'organise au nom de la liberté académique. Mais cette bataille est bien culturelle pour Donald Trump qui affiche son mépris des élites universitaires. Les universités américaines sont de véritables moteurs de la croissance et de l'innovation, avec leurs missions éducatives et leurs gigantesques labos de recherche, irrigués par les talents du monde entier. Mais peuvent-elles gagner la bataille du savoir contre la croisade culturelle MAGA ? Avec : • Vincent Pons, économiste, professeur d'Économie à la Harvard Business School et cofondateur d'Explain • Laurie Bereau, maîtresse de conférence en Civilisation des États-Unis à l'Université Rennes 2. En première partie de l'émission, l'école autour du Monde. Direction l'Argentine, avec notre correspondant Théo Conscience. Depuis le mois septembre, la chaîne de télévision publique pour enfants Paka paka diffuse Tuttle twins, un dessin animé importé des États-Unis qui promeut l'idéologie ultralibérale. Un nouvel outil dans l'arsenal du président Javier Milei au service de sa bataille culturelle. Programmation musicale : ► For My People - Joey Bada$$ ► Trop pressé - Apoutchou National ft. Yodé & Siro.
Columbia, Harvard, UCLA, Brown, Stanford, MIT... Depuis son retour à la Maison Blanche, les universités américaines sont la cible de Donald Trump. Interdiction des programmes de diversité, d'équité et d'inclusion, révisions des contenus pédagogiques, censure de certains mots, fin des visas à des étudiants et chercheurs étrangers, menaces sur les avantages fiscaux, suppression ou gel des subventions... Le président américain multiplie les injonctions et mesures contre les campus qu'il accuse d'être des bastions du wokisme, où l'antisémitisme prospèrerait. Dernière tentative de s'immiscer dans la gouvernance des universités : un «pacte pour l'excellence académique» qui implique notamment de ne pas dépasser les 15% d'étudiants étrangers en échange de fonds fédéraux pour 9 universités. Dans les campus, la résistance s'organise au nom de la liberté académique. Mais cette bataille est bien culturelle pour Donald Trump qui affiche son mépris des élites universitaires. Les universités américaines sont de véritables moteurs de la croissance et de l'innovation, avec leurs missions éducatives et leurs gigantesques labos de recherche, irrigués par les talents du monde entier. Mais peuvent-elles gagner la bataille du savoir contre la croisade culturelle MAGA ? Avec : • Vincent Pons, économiste, professeur d'Économie à la Harvard Business School et cofondateur d'Explain • Laurie Bereau, maîtresse de conférence en Civilisation des États-Unis à l'Université Rennes 2. En première partie de l'émission, l'école autour du Monde. Direction l'Argentine, avec notre correspondant Théo Conscience. Depuis le mois septembre, la chaîne de télévision publique pour enfants Paka paka diffuse Tuttle twins, un dessin animé importé des États-Unis qui promeut l'idéologie ultralibérale. Un nouvel outil dans l'arsenal du président Javier Milei au service de sa bataille culturelle. Programmation musicale : ► For My People - Joey Bada$$ ► Trop pressé - Apoutchou National ft. Yodé & Siro.
In this episode hosts Bill Elliff and Kyle Reno unpack how unresolved sin and unforgiveness can lead to personal bondage and relational chaos. Offering biblical steps to find true freedom, they use excerpts from Joseph's story and from the Psalms to encourage honest confession, reconciliation, and running to the Lord to experience freedom, blessing, and renewed purpose. Please share this podcast with your friends and let us know how the OneCry Podcast has impacted your own story by emailing us at podcast@onecry.com. You can Purchase Bill's Book Here - https://www.billelliff.org/products/lifting-lifes-greatest-load Find out more at www.onecry.com
Alpha Hour Exhortation - Episode 1133
durée : 00:59:07 - LSD, la série documentaire - par : Isabelle de Gaulmyn - Comment expliquer le regain du traditionalisme dans le catholicisme ? Pour sociologues et politologues, le besoin d'une identité plus affirmée dans un monde pluriel joue comme dans d'autres religions. Pour le catholicisme, un événement a durablement marqué les croyants : la Manif pour tous de 2013. - réalisation : Anne Fleury
[REDIFFUSION]Qu'est-ce qui rend une vie heureuse, pourquoi le ciel est bleu, pourquoi on tombe amoureux, pourquoi on s'attache et on se détache, pourquoi on se sent vraiment vivant quand on a devant soi un paysage à perte de vue, pourquoi on a peur, pourquoi on grandi, pourquoi la vie ? Cette philosophie, cet art de vivre, Charles Pepin le cultive depuis tout petit. Et aujourd'hui, il le transmet à travers des romans, des récits, des conférences. Et dans cet entretien.Belle écoute ! ☀️ Si tu as aimé cet épisode, tu peux le partager, écrire un commentaire dans la description et laisser des étoiles sur ta plateforme d'écoute ! ---Pour retrouver Charles Pépin
Church Life “Proclaiming 4 Roads to God” Acts 17:22-34 1. Creation (vv. 22-26) 2. Conscience (vv. 27-29) Ro. 1:19: "that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them."Psa. 14:1b-3 … The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good. 2 The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God. 3 They have all turned aside, They have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, No, not one. 3. Communication (v. 30) 4. Christ (vv.31-34) 10-26.docxdocx · 49.8 KB1 attachmentDownloadReplyReply all
In this episode, Christian Ann Larson—therapist, pastor, and co-leader of North City Church—teaches on what it means to live with a conscious dependence on the Holy Spirit. She explores how our daily habits, routines, and relationships reveal what (or who) we truly depend on—and invites us to reimagine dependence as something holy, not weak.Through stories, humor, and reflection on John 14, Christian Ann helps us see that dependence on the Spirit brings peace of mind and heart, not restriction. Drawing from her experience as both a therapist and follower of Jesus, she contrasts cultural ideals of independence with the interdependence modeled by the Trinity itself—Father, Son, and Spirit.You'll also hear a few funny moments (including one involving getting lost in northern Wisconsin without Google Maps!) and guided reflection questions to help you pause and notice the Spirit's presence in your own life.Key Themes:Rethinking dependence vs. independenceJesus' promise of the Holy Spirit (John 14)The Spirit as Advocate, Comforter, and GuidePractical ways to create space for the Spirit's voiceInterdependence as the design of God's peoplePeace as a sign of being led by the SpiritReflection Questions:What or who do you find yourself depending on most these days?How might those dependencies be shaping your sense of peace?Where can you create space to listen to the Spirit this week?Scripture Reference: John 14:15–27 (NLT)
C'est une victoire «écrasante», selon Donald Trump qui s'est empressé de féliciter son allié. Le parti de Javier Milei, La Libertad avanza, a récolté 41% des suffrages exprimés contre 32% pour l'opposition péroniste de centre gauche, lors des élections législatives partielles. Après des semaines de turbulences financières et l'intervention des États-Unis, Javier Milei s'en est sorti par le haut. Son parti arrive en tête dans les deux-tiers des provinces du pays, et notamment dans celle de Buenos Aires, qui concentre 40% de la population argentine et qui est un bastion traditionnel du péronisme. «Malgré une participation en berne et une économie qui tourne au ralenti, et après deux années d'austérité draconienne, Javier Milei enregistre une victoire personnelle car ces élections législatives s'étaient converties en véritable plébiscite sur sa personne», détaille Théo Conscience, le correspondant de RFI à Buenos Aires. «Le peuple argentin approuve le plan économique» de Javier Milei, estime Erica, une militante de la Libertad Avanza rencontrée devant le QG de campagne de Javier, Milei hier soir. «Il faut continuer avec l'équilibre des comptes publics et la baisse de l'inflation. Il faut continuer sur cette voie». «Javier Milei sort de ce scrutin renforcé, mais il n'aura pas les mains totalement libres», précise Théo Conscience. Avec ses alliés, il va contrôler un tiers de la chambre des députés, ce qui lui permettra de gouverner par décret et de blinder ses vetos présidentiels, donc de maintenir sa politique d'austérité. Le président n'aura en revanche pas la majorité absolue nécessaire pour avancer sur ses réformes, du système fiscal et du marché de travail notamment. Il va devoir nouer des alliances. Cela fait d'ailleurs partie des conditions posées par Donald Trump en échange du soutien financier du Trésor américain. La lourde défaite de Cristina Kirchner Pour Clarin, «une grande partie de la société n'a pas voté par peur de l'avenir, mais par peur du présent». Peur d'encore plus d'instabilité économique et politique. Les Argentins ne veulent pas que les règles du jeu changent à nouveau, estime le quotidien. Alors même si «la société souffre actuellement», les Argentins ont «décidé de parier» sur Javier Milei, «sur cette expérience politique face à la pauvreté de ce que proposait l'opposition qui se résumait à une seule consigne», poursuit Clarin : «freiner ou si possible, en finir avec l'actuel gouvernement». Le journal se montre très critique envers le péronisme «figé depuis longtemps dans des catégories idéologiques» dont il ne parvient pas à sortir pour recomposer son offre politique et se rendre attractif. Faute de prendre en compte la nouvelle réalité, «les slogans du passé ne sont plus que des coquilles vides», insiste Clarin. La Nacion aussi tire à boulets rouges sur le péronisme, et plus précisément sur l'ancienne présidente Cristina Kirchner. «Elle est le résultat de la construction d'un récit, et pas le résultat du constat d'une réalité tangible», estime le quotidien. «Ja» pour sa mauvaise gestion des ressources publiques, souligne La Nacion qui juge qu'elle devrait désormais appartenir définitivement au passé. «Le péronisme est devenu un projet politique de néophytes alors que c'était auparavant l'organisation politique la plus audacieuse quand il s'agissait de conquérir le pouvoir», poursuit le journal qui met en garde : «Le somnanbulisme politique des kirchnéristes constitue un sérieux obstacle au projet de retour au pouvoir du péronisme.» Ivan Cepeda, possible dauphin du président colombien Environ 2,7 millions de Colombiens se sont rendus aux urnes hier (26 octobre 2025) pour la primaire ouverte organisée par le «pacto historico», la coaliton gouvernementale de gauche, relève El Espectador, ce qui, selon La Semana, fait dire à la gauche que ce scrutin est une victoire quand la droite juge que c'est un échec. En effet, plus de 2 millions d'électeurs, c'est bien mais pas assez pour remporter la présidentielle de 2026. La gauche doit s'unir, analyse le journal. Avant le premier tour, prévu le 31 mai, Ivan Cepeda, philosophe et défenseur des droits âgé de 63 ans et ennemi déclaré de l'influent ex-président de droite Alvaro Uribe, devra affronter d'autres figures de gauche lors de prochains scrutins afin de désigner un candidat unique. Pour El Espectador, la primaire d'hier a au moins permis au camp de Gustavo Petro de savoir où il se situe. Il peut désormais tracer «la route à suivre pour entretenir l'agitation électorale» et nourrir «les différents narratifs de la campagne, qui incluent les discours autour d'un «blocage» au Congrès et l'étendard de la lutte contre les Etats-Unis de Donald Trump». L'ouragan Melissa menace Haïti et la République dominicaine L'ouragan Melissa est désormais classé en catégorie 5, soit la catégorie maximale, indique ce matin (27 octobre 2025) le Centre national américain des ouragans. Les 48 prochaines heures seront cruciales pour la Jamaïque, la République dominicaine et Haïti menacés par des «vents destructeurs» et des «inondations catastrophiques». Melissa pourrait être l'ouragan le plus puissant de toute l'histoire de la Jamaïque, souligne le Washington Post. Les dégâts pourraient être considérables parce que l'ouragan se déplace lentement et que la Jamaïque est une zone montagneuse, explique le journal. Mélissa pourrait frapper trois fois en trois jours cette petite île d'environ 2,8 millions de personnes, ce qui veut dire que personne ne devrait être épargné, écrit encore le Washington Post. C'est un ouragan «extraordinaire» qui s'apprête à toucher la Jamaïque, précise le journal. Extraordinaire en raison de la rapidité avec laquelle cette tempête est devenue un ouragan. Déjà touchés l'an dernier (2024) par l'ouragan Beryl, les autorités et les habitants se tiennent prêts. Le responsable du fournisseur d'électricité du pays a d'ores et déjà prévenu que la priorité de ses équipes serait de débloquer les routes qui mènent aux hôpitaux et aux aéroports, de faire parvenir des vivres et des équipements à l'île par bateau ou avion, et de reconstruire les infrastructures endommagées. Compte tenu de l'intensité de Melissa, ce responsable s'attend surtout à devoir reconstruire, pas à devoir réparer. La difficile situation des écoliers de l'Artibonite En Haïti, les enfants subissent de plein fouet les conséquences de la violence perpétrée par les gangs. Un rapport de l'Unicef, publié en octobre 2025, révèle que plus de 600 000 enfants ont été contraints de quitter leur foyer au cours de l'année écoulée. Cette situation affecte principalement le département de l'Ouest, ainsi que celui de l'Artibonite. Dans l'Artibonite, notamment dans la partie basse du département, certains des groupes criminels les plus dangereux du pays se sont installés. Meurtres, pillages et incendies se multiplient, plongeant la population dans la terreur et l'insécurité. Au milieu de tout cela, les écoles peinent à rouvrir leurs portes, laissant ainsi des milliers d'enfants non scolarisés et les parents dans la tourmente. Dans le Bas-Artibonite, des enfants sont pris au piège de la violence des gangs. C'est un dossier signé Ronel Paul. Le journal de la 1ère Les algues sargasses suivent des «autoroutes» bien précises. C'est ce que révèle une étude très sérieuse publiée le mois dernier.
[REDIFFUSION]Notre façon d'être adulte fait-elle sens et envie pour les jeunes ? Qu'est-ce qui donne à notre vie un sens personnel et vivant ? Thomas d'Ansembourg nous invite à entreprendre le chantier de notre vie intérieure, véritable enjeu de société à ce moment précis où nous avons tant besoin d'apprendre de nouvelles façons d'être ensemble.Le sens et l'envie sont les moteurs de notre joie de vivre et de notre façon d'être ensemble. Quand on apprend à joindre les deux, on est habités d'une énergie à la fois douce et puissante, qui peut soulever les montagnes. Et cela nous permet de transformer les anciens systèmes de pensée – basés sur les rapports de force, de méfiance et de division – pour incarner des valeurs d'empathie, de confiance et de responsabilité.Quel est notre fil rouge intérieur ? Comment identifier sa boussole ?Avec Thomas d'Ansembourg dans cet épisode, on parle d'intuition, d'intériorité citoyenne et d'élan de vie.J'espère que cet épisode t'aidera à identifier ta boussole intérieure.Belle écoute ! ☀️ Si tu as aimé cet épisode, tu peux le partager, écrire un commentaire dans la description et laisser des étoiles sur ta plateforme d'écoute !---
Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt Podcast (.xml Format)
--{ "New Order Schemes to Track Your Dreams"}-- CTTM book club and other big projects - AI companion robots for elderly people - “RFID Will Protect You, Says Industry Lawyer” by Mark Baard -- RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) - Department of Homeland Security - “Public Safety” - Chipping business - ID cards, passports - 911 - British ID passport - Public-Private - Psychopathic terms - Remote tracking devices to “protect you” - Tagging and tracking store items from factory floor to checkout counter and beyond [this is what the blockchain is really all about] - Data mining - Pyramid capstone at top - -- Alan: “If you don't know your history, you are doomed to repeat it” -- Movements toward “Democracy” - Holding power by keeping pulse of public - World elite and fudal serfdom - Specialized priesthoods - Machiavellian techniques - New World Order is always becoming New - Allegiances sworn to royalty - Oaths - Doublethink - Tribal psychology - Population reduction - Global Warming - Psychopaths will blame others; rationalization of anything - “Founding Fathers” many were verified Freemasons - Bill Cooper; those who want to save the system - Great Depression - Tax men - Legalistic statements by media; people have been told - Everyone is making decisions -Migration - Agenda 21 - Cloning and genetic enhancement, Plato's The Republic- Breeding qualities in or out - Looking at alternate ways of getting through all this - Why save an illusion? - Property taxes; inhumane system - Ignorance is a choice - Relationships - Awake individuals - Conscience - Psychopathic egocentric culture - Conscience brings responsibility, pointing out what is, what will be, what can be - Not caring is a choice; those through the ages that could understand with clarity -Teaching others, Age of Aquarius brings in final solution for elite -Trinity of 2 in 1 - Duad - High occult - 21st Century (2 in 1) - Completion of part of plan - Time to pass on knowledge is running out - Children's conditioning for chips and virtual reality - Infiltration of mass movements - Personal choices on a daily basis - Risk of complete oblivion of conscious mind - Silence is acquiescence - Empathy for others ensures your own survival - Selection of particular qualities for future humans - Alteration then chipping would bring non-persons.
October 16, 2025We explored the nature of a believer's conscience and guilt, diving deeply into the difference between positional truth and experiential reality. The discussion focused on how sin, sanctification, and the transformation of the soul relate to faith, dependence on God, and the work of the Holy Spirit.We examined how guilt originates in the flesh rather than in the believer's new nature, and how God uses conviction—not condemnation—to guide His people toward obedience and maturity. Purity, we reflected, is not self-produced but comes from Christ, who removes shame and frees us from the law of sin and death.The conversation also highlighted the importance of separating the soul from the spirit to walk in holiness, aligning our emotions, will, and thoughts under the authority of God's Spirit. This process of sanctification, both positional and progressive, reveals how believers become in time what God has already declared them to be in eternity.We concluded by reflecting on the contrast between living in the flesh and walking by the Spirit, emphasizing humility, grace, and the transformative power of God's love.Themes:The believer's conscience and experiential guiltChrist's purity as freedom from shame and sinSanctification as both positional and progressiveThe separation of soul and spirit for spiritual maturityHumility and grace over legalismDependence on God for transformationLiving in the Spirit vs. living in the fleshReflection Question: How does my understanding of guilt and grace shape the way I respond to conviction—do I hide in shame, or run to Christ for renewal?
Series: N/AService: SundayType: SermonSpeaker: Dylan Stewart
Helen Andrews' Compact article on “The Great Feminization” is causing a stir, provoking responses from left, right, and in-between. And I just know that everyone wants to hear David French's take on it, because how can we form a judgment about anything without hearing from the Conscience of the World. (Actually, just go with the […]
Helen Andrews' Compact article on "The Great Feminization" is causing a stir, provoking responses from left, right, and in-between. And I just know that everyone wants to hear David French's take on it, because how can we form a judgment about anything without hearing from the Conscience of the World. (Actually, just go with the normally mild-mannered Charles Murray's take: "I'm still waiting to read something by David French that doesn't irritate me. Even when I agree with the substance, the sanctimony drives me nuts. In this case, I wholly disagree with his take on Helen Andrews.")John Yoo files a dissent of his own that Steve and Lucretia find worthy of certain members of the Supreme Court just now, but keep your eyes out on this one; Steve, naturally, has an analogy on offer.The gang also wonders if some Chinese lab has come up with a new, more potent strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome, because how else can you explain how insane Trump-haters are over . . . a White House ballroom? (You can guess the exit music this week. Yup, it's that 1970s standard, "Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet.)We end with a few sober thoughts about health care, and then it's back to arguing about . . . neckties.
It's Friday, October 24th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Adam McManus Spanish priest acquitted on hate crime charges for criticizing radical Islam A Spanish Catholic priest who was facing three years in prison for making critical remarks about radical Islam nearly a decade ago has been acquitted, reports The Christian Post. The advocacy organization Abogados Cristianos announced in an X post last Friday that “The Malaga Court [acquitted] Pastor Custodio [Ballester], prosecuted for criticizing Islam: there is no hate crime.” In 2016, Ballester was charged with saying, “Islam does not allow for dialogue. You either believe or you are an infidel who must be subdued one way or another.” The Rev. Franklin Graham praised Ballester's acquittal as “good news” in an X post on Monday. A report published last month by the Spanish Observatory for Religious Freedom and Conscience found that 69% of the attacks were directed at Christians, while instances of antisemitism grew by 38% compared to 2023 and had increased by 867% since 2022. Senator Schumer's shutdown flip flop, afraid of an AOC challenge Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Minority Leader of the U.S. Senate, has historically opposed government shutdowns. He opposed a shutdown on October 16, 2013. SCHUMER: “What if I persuaded my caucus to say I'm going to shut the government down. I'm going to not pay our bills unless I get my way. It's a politics of idiocy, of confrontation, of paralysis.” Then, Senator Schumer opposed a government shutdown on January 25, 2019. SCHUMER: “Shutting down government over a policy difference is self-defeating. We can never hold American workers hostage again.” And, as recently as March 13th of this year, Senator Schumer opposed a government shutdown then. SCHUMER: “While the [Continuing Resolution] bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse. Therefore, I will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down.” But now, Democratic Senator Schumer is leading the fight for the government shutdown, driven by the AOC/Sanders wing of his party. Listen to CNN's John Berman's introduction of his recent appearance. BERMAN: “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who joins us now from Capitol Hill. Senator, I was saying that every Republican who's gone on TV the last, what nine hours or so, has called this the ‘Schumer Shutdown.” Later, Berman said this. BERMAN: “Everyone in Congress right now, on the Republican side, is really pointing the finger squarely at you personally. And one of the things they're saying is, this is about politics in New York, that you might face a primary from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.” In fact, Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana said as much. KENNEDY: “Senator Schumer, his relationship with the truth is very casual. The truth is that this is a political shutdown. Senator Schumer is nervous as a pregnant nun about losing his re-election to the socialist wing of his party led by Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, which is in control. “Now, we will eventually come out of this shutdown. Here's how I think it will happen. Senator Schumer is a smart man. He's been around a long time. His first car was a chariot. Washington is all he's ever known his entire life. He knows he's on shaky ground here in terms of policy. “So, here's how I think it'll end. Schumer will go to six or eight of his colleagues, Democrats of course, and say, ‘I want you to vote to lift the shutdown.' He'll say, ‘I can't vote with you. I've got to appear to be tough. I may even have to criticize you, but' -- wink wink, nod nod – ‘I'm trying to make the loon wing of the party love me, but you bail me out here.' But he's got to be careful with that, because he doesn't want it to look like a mutiny, because then he looks even weaker.” CA teacher to ICE: “They are not the only ones with guns in this city.” The Department of Homeland Security will refer a California teacher for a possible criminal probe after he made threatening comments toward immigration officials, reports WorldNetDaily.com. Listen to Los Angeles Unified School District history teacher Ron Gochez. GOCHEZ: “Don't forget where you're standing. This is South Central Los Angeles. They are not the only ones with guns in this city. They're not the only ones that don't forget that. And I don't say that because we're calling it for violence. I'm saying that because the people have every right to defend themselves against masked, unidentified gunmen with AR-15s and other military rifles.” Gochez founded the Los Angeles chapter of Union del Barrio—a revolutionary socialist movement that demands an end to capitalism and open borders from Alaska to Chile. The group sees communist dictators like Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Che Guevara as heroes. DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said that the teacher's comments endanger ICE agents' lives. New Bible story book injects sexual perversion, gender confusion, and woke ideology And finally, a new children's book of Bible stories claims that the Bible has "made-up" stories and events in its pages, drawing criticism from Focus on the Family, reports The Christian Post. The Just Love Story Bible, authored by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis and Rev. Dr. Shannon Harris, reimagines 52 stories from the Old and New Testaments, weaving in sexual perversion, gender confusion, and woke ideology. For them, the Bible is not authoritative; they are. In the book's introduction to Genesis, the woke authors, who are part of the leftist Presbyterian Church (USA), write, "Some of the stories had made-up characters and events. Others were about real people and things that really happened." Harris, an associate dean at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City, explained her motivation behind the project at a Q&A event for the book in September. HARRIS: “I wanted to do this project with Jackie, because when my kids were little, it was really hard to find a children's Bible that I didn't feel like I had to change some of the words. Like there might be stories that talked about God, like God was a boy (laughing) and only used kind of male language for God. Or they might tell a story, but they wouldn't tell enough about the story to understand whether it was about a made-up character or a real person.” Later, to the audience of parents and young children, she read an excerpt from her woke Just Love Story Bible in which she reinterpreted the plagues and other punishments that God had sent to get Pharoah's attention or the attention of His chosen people, the Jews. HARRIS: “Four natural disasters, one after the other. Well, the prophet and the people thought they were to blame. They thought that the disasters were God's way of punishing them. They didn't know that when bad things happen, like swarms of bugs, floods, earthquakes or tornadoes, it's not God's punishment, but it's easy to worry when bad things happen, to feel like God's angry at you, even when that's not true.” Inspired by the Joel 2:28 passage, Harris also imagined what a young person might envision. HARRIS: “So what did the young people prophesy back then? Perhaps one of them bravely announced to the prophets, priests and people: ‘I don't believe that our loving God sends terrible things to teach us a lesson.'” In an op-ed published by Focus on the Family's news arm, Daily Citizen, Paul Batura warned families about The Just Love Story Bible. He said, "[T]he motives of the authors appear broader and far more dangerous than merely trumpeting diversity. They also want to sow seeds of doubt in children's minds that the events depicted in the Bible are literally true, including the Resurrection.” He added, "Questioning the accuracy and authority of the Bible is hardly a new exercise, but so blatantly and openly selling such a heretical interpretation of God's Word to children undermines God's sacred Word in a particularly dangerous and destructive way." Indeed, 2 Timothy 4:3-4 says, “For a time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths." Close And that's The Worldview on this Friday, October 24th, in the year of our Lord 2025. Follow us on X or subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.
Stay Alert 10/16/25Since Grant recently received Jesus as his Savior, he is now faced with the question of “Who will you listen to?” Conscience takes Grant on a journey through time and space to visit Bible stories, peek in on what the devil is up to and visit a scene from Grant's past—all with the intention of helping Grant understand the importance of guarding your heart and mind from the influences of evil. 1 Peter 5:8 says, "Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour." When you guard your heart and learn God's Word, you will be equipped for God to work through you for good. 2 Timothy 2:21 says, “If you keep yourself pure, …you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work.” #kids, #kidstories, #storiesforchristiankids, #biblelessonsforkids, #bedtimestoriesforkids, #guardyourheart, #stayalertforeverygoodwork, #keepyourheartfromevil, #fishbytes4kids, #roncarriewebb, #fishbitesforkids, #christiankids, #storiesforkids,
Welcome back to TV Show: In Space! REWIND! In this episode, we cover episodes 11-15 of Star Trek: The Original Series - The Menagerie Parts 1 and 2, The Conscience of The King, Balance of Terror, and Shore Leave.
Guest Host: Megan Almon Megan Almon talks about the reality and nature of beauty, answers questions about introducing heavy cultural topics to young people who aren't already asking about them and whether or not God would have destroyed the Israelites if Moses hadn't intervened, and more. Topics: Commentary: Beauty is real. (00:00) Is it dangerous to bring up the heavier questions of culture to young people in our church if they're not asking the questions already? (34:00) If Moses hadn't stepped in, would God have followed through and destroyed the Israelites? (41:00) Commentary: We can all create beauty with acts of everyday faithfulness. (46:00) Mentioned on the Show: Reality Student Apologetics Conference – November 7–8 in Minneapolis, MN; February 20–21, 2026 in Dallas, TX; March 13–14, 2026 in Philadelphia, PA; April 24–25, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis Cultural Apologetics: Renewing the Christian Voice, Conscience, and Imagination in a Disenchanted World by Paul Gould Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and the Arts by Jerram Barrs Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees Edited, Outlined and Explained by Peter Kreeft
A sober call to keep a good conscience so you don't shipwreck your faith. Pastor Greg Mitchell opens 1 Timothy 1:18–20 and shows how God uses conscience as an inner warning system—and how ignoring it leads to ruin.Key themes:• What conscience is and why God gave it• How cravings, attitudes, sin, pride, and wrong motives damage it• Why ministry requires a pure conscience over time• How to heal: strive for clarity, repent quickly, ask God for a new heart, and invite outside counselhttps://TakingTheLandPodcast.comSUBSCRIBE TO PREMIUM FOR MORE:• Subscribe for only $3/month on Supercast: https://taking-the-land.supercast.com/• Subscribe for only $3.99/month on Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/taking-the-land/subscribe• Subscribe for only $4.99/month on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3vy1s5bScriptures cited: 1 Tim 1:18–20; 1 Tim 1:5; 1 Tim 3:9; 2 Tim 1:3; Matt 5:6; Ps 40:8; 1 Sam 24:5; Prov 30:20; Titus 1:15; Eph 4:19; 1 Tim 4:2; 2 Tim 4:10; Jer 17:9; 2 Chr 26:16; Acts 24:16; Ps 32:2–3; Ps 51:6,10–12.Chapters00:00 The Unconventional Start: Money Matters in Faith07:06 The Heart of Giving: A Divine Challenge11:01 Planting Seeds for the Future: Vision and Faith13:41 Conscience Shipwrecks: The Importance of Inner Awareness26:53 The Dangers of Ignoring Conscience: A Call to Self-Reflection32:39 The Dangers of Pride and Conscience43:07 Healing and Preserving Conscience51:10 The Call to Repentance and RestorationShow NotesALL PROCEEDS GO TO WORLD EVANGELISMLocate a CFM Church near you: https://cfmmap.orgWe need five-star reviews! Tell the world what you think about this podcast at: • Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3vy1s5b • Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/taking-the-land-cfm-sermon-pod-43369v
Esperanza and Irwin welcome Sarah Kautz, the Executive Director of the Southampton History Museum. The question is an intriguing one: Did the Mayflower Pilgrims land at Conscience Point, Southampton as well as Plymouth Rock? Through a fun and free wheeling conversation, Sarah shares some thoughts and theories illuminating a fascinating part of American history, within the boundaries of eastern Long Island.
SummaryIn this episode of the Gird Up podcast, host Charlie Ungemach engages in a deep conversation with Dr. Paul Wendland, a Lutheran theologian, about the pressing issues surrounding gender and sexuality in today's culture. They explore the cultural shifts that have led to a redefinition of gender identity, the church's role in addressing these issues, and the importance of compassion and empathy in conversations with those struggling with their identity. Dr. Wendland emphasizes the need for a supportive community and the significance of grounding one's identity in Christ amidst the challenges of modern society.Chapters00:00 Introduction to Gird Up Podcast and Mission02:17 Understanding the Cultural Landscape of Gender and Sexuality12:11 The Rise of LGBTQ Awareness and Identity17:45 Navigating Truth in a Confused Culture30:35 Compassion vs. Integrity in Conversations about LGBTQ Issues36:31 Navigating Truth and Relationships42:46 Long-Term Witness and Compassion44:29 Social Interactions and Christian Witness48:09 Conscience and Public Stance52:11 Creating Open Family Environments57:16 Support for Struggling Individuals01:01:58 Finding Comfort in StruggleDr. Wendland's Links:https://madeknown.net/http://essays.wisluthsem.org:8080/bitstream/handle/123456789/4507/WendlandTransgender.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=yGird Up Links:https://youtube.com/@girdupministries4911?si=tbCa0SOiluVl8UFxhttps://www.instagram.com/girdup_be_a_man/https://www.girdupministries.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this powerful message, Pastor Armando Palazzo unpacks the Apostle Paul's bold statement in 1 Corinthians 9:27 — “I discipline my body and keep it under control.”Learn what Paul really meant when he said he beats his flesh into submission, and discover how spiritual discipline, self-control, and integrity are essential for every believer and leader today.Whether you're battling temptation, struggling with consistency, or simply hungry for a deeper walk with God, this teaching will equip you to live with focus, victory, and purpose.
5 Hours and 9 MinutesPG-13Thomas777 is a revisionist historian and a fiction writer.Here are episodes 6-10 of the World War 2 series with Thomas777 in one audio file.Episode 6: The Origin and Rise of Winston Churchill Pt. 3 - 1936-1939 w/ Thomas777Episode 7: Winston Churchill Becomes a Warlord - Part 4 of 4 w/ Thomas777Episode 8: Dispelling Myths, and an Introduction to 'Operation Barbarossa' w/ Thomas777Episode 9: Laying Out the Details of 'Operation Barbarossa' w/ Thomas 777Episode 10: The Conscience of the War (WW2) Wagers and Planners w/ Thomas777Thomas' SubstackThomas777 MerchandiseThomas' Book "Steelstorm Pt. 1"Thomas' Book "Steelstorm Pt. 2"Thomas on TwitterThomas' CashApp - $7homas777Pete and Thomas777 'At the Movies'Support Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's SubstackPete's SubscribestarPete's GUMROADPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on TwitterBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.
“Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it. They demonstrate that God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right.” (Romans 2:14–15 NLT) A well-lived life is one that is guided by a Spirit-controlled conscience. Someone once said, “Conscience is that inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.” Someone else said, “Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.” And someone else said, “Conscience doesn’t always keep you from doing wrong, but it does keep you from enjoying it.” Apparently, the idea of a conscience triggers the cynical instincts of certain people. Everyone has a conscience. The apostle Paul wrote, “Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it. They demonstrate that God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right” (Romans 2:14–15 NLT). The conscience acts as an alarm. And like a car alarm or a smoke alarm, it can be disabled—or at least quieted. If you ignore your conscience long enough, its “chirping” will become less and less noticeable to you. In time, it will fade into background noise, something you pay no attention to. The Bible warns us against allowing this to happen. The apostle Paul wrote, “Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from the true faith; they will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that come from demons. These people are hypocrites and liars, and their consciences are dead” (1 Timothy 4:1–2 NLT). A deactivated or dead conscience makes us susceptible to all kinds of evil. To live well, spiritually speaking, you must keep your conscience functioning at a high level. Keep in mind that your conscience is not infallible. Sometimes it will try to condemn you for something that’s not actually wrong. The apostle John wrote, “Even if we feel guilty, God is greater than our feelings, and he knows everything” (1 John 3:20 NLT). Similarly, there will be times when your conscience refuses to condemn you after you do something wrong. It will try to justify your actions or downplay their seriousness. So, it’s important to teach your conscience how to function properly. You do that by placing it under the control of the Holy Spirit. Spend time in God’s Word, learning everything you can about how God wants you to live. Then pay attention to the Holy Spirit’s prompts so that you’ll know when to make changes in your life. Martin Luther said, “My conscience is captive to the Word of God.” If you effectively educate your conscience to do what it’s supposed to do as designed by the Lord, you will have the foundation in place for a well-lived life. Reflection question: What does a Spirit-controlled conscience look like in your life? Discuss Today's Devo in Harvest Discipleship! — The audio production of the podcast "Daily Devotions from Greg Laurie" utilizes Generative AI technology. This allows us to deliver consistent, high-quality content while preserving Harvest's mission to "know God and make Him known."All devotional content is written and owned by Pastor Greg Laurie. Listen to the Greg Laurie Podcast Become a Harvest PartnerSupport the show: https://harvest.org/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stay Alert 10/16/25 Since Grant recently received Jesus as his Savior, he is now faced with the question of “Who will you listen to?” Conscience takes Grant on a journey through time and space to visit Bible stories, peek in on what the devil is up to and visit a scene from Grant's past—all with the intention of helping Grant understand the importance of guarding your heart and mind from the influences of evil. 1 Peter 5:8 says, "Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour." When you guard your heart and learn God's Word, you will be equipped for God to work through you for good. 2 Timothy 2:21 says, “If you keep yourself pure, …you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work.” #kids, #kidstories, #storiesforchristiankids, #biblelessonsforkids, #bedtimestoriesforkids, #guardyourheart, #stayalertforeverygoodwork, #keepyourheartfromevil, #fishbytes4kids, #roncarriewebb, #fishbitesforkids, #christiankids, #storiesforkids,
Read OnlineThen one of the scholars of the law said to him in reply, “Teacher, by saying this you are insulting us too.” And he said, “Woe also to you scholars of the law! You impose on people burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not lift one finger to touch them.” Luke 11:45–46This scholar of the law had been listening to Jesus firmly rebuke the Pharisees. As he listened, his own conscience was pricked, and he challenged our Lord. What does Jesus do? He quickly and firmly rebukes the scholar of the law, pointing out that the scholar uses the law to impose heavy burdens on people. Jesus did not back down in this rebuke of love. Instead, He directed it to the very place that His rebuke was bearing fruit: in the conscience of this scholar of the law.This experience of the scholar of the law teaches us two important lessons. First, we learn from him the importance of paying attention to our conscience when it is “pricked.” Second, it teaches us that when this happens, it is very easy to become defensive.What is it that pricks your own conscience? Think back over the past month and reflect upon anything that you became defensive about. Did something someone said bother you? If so, pay attention to this. Sometimes we are bothered for reasons other than our own sin. But oftentimes, what actually bothers us is that we come face-to-face with some sin with which we struggle, and we do not want to admit it.What if this scholar of the law would have listened to Jesus and, instead of being offended, became grateful for Jesus' words? What if he would have humbly looked at his own life and realized that he was also guilty of the very things that Jesus was condemning the Pharisees for? If he would have done that, he would have been put in a position to sincerely examine his actions and begin a process of change. But this is hard to do. Reflect, today, upon anything that has recently offended you. Be honest and admit that it is often the case that when God presents you with your sin through some means such as the loving rebuke of another, you must work diligently to overcome any pride. And when you feel defensive, you must immediately see that as an indication that there is something in your life that you need to change. A pricked conscience is a gift from God. Rejoice when that happens, rather than being offended, and you will discover one of the best ways by which you can grow in holiness of life by becoming free of the very sin our Lord is presenting to you. My challenging Lord, You are constantly speaking to me in various ways. Sometimes You are gentle, and at other times You lovingly rebuke me. Please help me to see my sin. As I do, I pray that I will not become defensive or dismissive, rationalizing my erroneous actions. May I learn to rejoice in all that You say to me, especially when You speak Your rebukes of love. Jesus, I trust in You.Image: Jacob Jordaens, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsSource of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2025 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.
Should patriots abandon major American cities? To find the answer, we’re updating one of our very first episodes – the seminal 2016 Trump San Jose rally case – where a MAGA-hat-wearing man was forced into an angry far-left mob…by the police. His ugly ordeal quietly came to an end in March 2020 – and the result sends a clear message to law and order Americans all over the country.Support the show: https://redpilledamerica.com/support/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.